Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 26th Jul 2006 20:43 UTC
Microsoft plans to automatically push Internet Explorer 7 to Windows XP users when the browser update is ready later this year. IE 7 will be delivered in the fourth quarter as a 'high priority' update via Automatic Updates in Windows XP, Gary Schare, Microsoft's director of IE product management, said in an interview Tuesday.
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2005-09-23
So it took them this long to deliver those relatively minor features? Not to mention Firefox has supported transparent PNG rendering and tabbed browsing all along; and it's done CSS closer to standard and security is excellent. Here we are watching Microsoft do what they've always done: catch up.
IE Manager: Alright I've got a list of the features in Firefox that IE6 doesn't have. [peruses list]. Looks good, okay send this to the programmers and call it IE7.
Intern: But, won't most people be unable to notice these changes?
IE Manager: You're right. Get the UI people onboard too.
But really, isn't IE7 compared to IE6 just like comparing Windows XP to Vista: a few new interesting features which might attract technical users and a whole boatload of graphical improvements which will attract non-technical people (but also make it run on 0.5% of the hardware Windows XP does? /number exaggerated).